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nemo crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_free_chain_with_offset()

Bug #1945903 reported by Laurent Bonnaud
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nemo (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Nemo crashed while I was trying all desktop environments after an upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
Package: nemo 4.8.6-2
Uname: Linux 5.14.9-051409-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu69
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Sun Oct 3 17:35:26 2021
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nemo
ProcCmdline: nemo
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7efe134a3f42 <g_slice_free_chain_with_offset+194>: mov (%rbx,%r10,1),%rbx
 PC (0x7efe134a3f42) ok
 source "(%rbx,%r10,1)" (0x757575757575757d) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%rbx" ok
SegvReason: reading unknown VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: nemo
StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset (mem_size=24, mem_chain=<optimized out>, next_offset=<optimized out>) at ../../../glib/gslice.c:1235
 finalize (object=0x55b1488e0160 [NemoIconViewContainer]) at ../libnemo-private/nemo-icon-container.c:2787
 g_object_unref (_object=<optimized out>) at ../../../gobject/gobject.c:3524
 g_object_unref (_object=0x55b1488e0160) at ../../../gobject/gobject.c:3416
 gtk_scrolled_window_destroy (widget=0x55b1487d5ce0 [NemoIconView]) at ../../../../gtk/gtkscrolledwindow.c:2821
Title: nemo crashed with SIGSEGV in g_slice_free_chain_with_offset()
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-10-03 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip disk fuse kvm libvirt libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare staff sudo
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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote :
information type: Private → Public
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote :

StacktraceTop:
 g_slice_free_chain_with_offset (mem_size=24, mem_chain=<optimized out>, next_offset=<optimized out>) at ../../../glib/gslice.c:1235
 finalize (object=0x55b1488e0160) at ../libnemo-private/nemo-icon-container.c:2787
 g_object_unref (_object=<optimized out>) at ../../../gobject/gobject.c:3524
 g_object_unref (_object=0x55b1488e0160) at ../../../gobject/gobject.c:3416
 gtk_scrolled_window_destroy (widget=0x55b1487d5ce0) at ../../../../gtk/gtkscrolledwindow.c:2821

tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
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Changed in nemo (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Laurent Bonnaud (laurent-bonnaud) wrote :

nemo still crashes when I launch it on my Ubuntu 22.04/jammy system:

$ nemo

** (nemo:66515): WARNING **: 13:06:12.163: Current gtk theme is not known to have nemo support (Breeze) - checking...

** (nemo:66515): WARNING **: 13:06:12.204: The theme appears to have no nemo support. Adding some...
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Package: nemo
Version: 5.2.4-1

tags: added: jammy
removed: impish
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Joshua Peisach (itzswirlz) wrote :

It looks like a bad free.

g_free (details);
g_list_free (details->current_selection);

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nemo - 5.4.2-1

---------------
nemo (5.4.2-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version 5.4.2 (LP: #1945903)
  * d/control: add html2text to nemo recommends
  * Update lintian override
  * Update d/copyright

 -- Fabio Fantoni <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:23:44 +0200

Changed in nemo (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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